The song starts with a verse from the Bible: THEY FRONT= (slang) They are hypocrites, they pretend to be what they are not. So he means that there is something very intense happening in his brain, like an idea trying to get shape, but he doesn’t know exactly what it is yet. To continue with the kitchen metaphor, he then says “but I don’t know what’s cooking”. If you have something “in the kitchen”, you are thinking very hard about it. IN THE KITCHEN= (slang) A mental place where your brain is running at its highest level of power.
I be livin’ wit’ them bros = I am living with those people. Yep, you is loco = Yeah, you are crazy. She be a ten, bro! = She’s so hot, man! In black AmE the present tense of the verb to be can use the forms is, are or be for any person (but “am” can only be used for “I”) THINGS IS GOING= (black AmE) Things are going. NOTHING BUT A HEART BEAT AWAY= Only a moment away (= you can die any moment)ĭO OR DIE= (coll.) If you do something “ do or die”, you are desperate. It could also refer to that spark of light you get in your eyes when you are excited about something or have a brilliant (or evil) idea. “ I have a gleam in my eye” means “I can see jewellery” (so I have it, or my perfect girl has it on). MY TEN= A 10 is a perfect woman (physically perfect, that is), but here it is a slang word for a ten millimetre automatic pistol. WITH MONEY ON MY MIND= Who wants to get rich. A hoody (a sweater with a hood) is the typical thing street gangsters or hooligans wear.ĬHASING DREAMS= Trying to make your wishes come true. THE HOOD TEAM= I suppose he refers to “people wearing hoods”. If the streets raise you, you learn everything from criminals, hooligans and bad people. I WAS RAISED BY THE STREETS= If your parents raise you, they take care of you and educate you. So in “gangster” they don’t pronounce the final R, so it sounds like “gangsta”, and this spelling is trying to reflect that pronunciation.Ī GANGSTA’S PARADISE= A gangster’s haven, a place perfect for gangsters. In standard American English, people pronounce the letter R everywhere (for example in “rose” and in “car”) in black American English (same as in British English), the R is only pronounced when followed by a vowel (so they pronounce it in “rose” but not in “car”). In fact, this spelling is only a way of reflecting black American pronunciation. GANGSTA= (black AmE) Gangster = A member of a mafia or a criminal association a hooligan.
THE LITTLE HOMIES= buddies, friends (here “little” is not about size, but about feelings, so this means something like “dear friends”) THE KINDA G= (coll.) The kind of gangster. LOC= (slang) man, buddy, mate (a way of addressing your friends from the band) TRIP= to consume drugs to get a hallucinatory experience. When someone is killed, the police draws a white line around the corps with chalk to mark the exact place and position of the body before removing it. HOMIES= (slang, originally “homeboy/homegirl”) Close friends. YOU BETTER= (coll.) You’d better = You had better = You should. ME BE TREATED= I am treated (they treat me)Ī PUNK= Someone who is worthless, not important. I AIN’T NEVER CROSSED A MAN= I have never met/known a man. You ain’t no better than me = You aren’t better than me I ain’t bin to London never = I have never been to London. Read under the MEANING tab to learn more about this)īLASTING= (slang) To blast is to have a wild time, partying and all that.ĪIN’T= (slang) The negative form of the verb to be or have in the present: That’s why I know my life is out of luck, fool!ĪS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH= As I live in this dangerous and sad place (this metaphor was composed by King David 3000 years ago. If they can’t understand it, how can they reach me? Power and the money, money and the power,Įverybody’s running, but half of them ain’t looking I’m twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four? I’m living life do or die, what can I say? I’m a lok’d out gangsta, set tripping bangerĪnd my homies are down so don’t arouse my anger.įool, death ain’t nothing but a heart beat away, Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye. I’m an educated fool with money on my mind Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams.
I can’t live a normal life, I was raised by the streets. Look at the situation, they got me facing, Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk,Īs they croak I see myself in the pistol smoke,įool, I’m the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, You better watch how you’re talking, and where you’re walking, Me be treated like a punk, you know that’s unheard of, That even my momma thinks that my mind has gone.īut I ain’t never crossed a man that didn’t deserve it. ‘Cause I’ve been blasting and laughing so long You wanna tell me what this is all about?Īs I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
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